To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Jay Lucas gives corporate guidance Page 6
1995 Pride supplement maps and more Pages 15-18
�Signorile speaks out Page 22
focusPoint plans move
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 27 and 28, the focusPoint office will be boxed up and transported to its new location at 401 N. 3rd St. The new office, in the Designer�s Guild building in the warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis, is nearly triple the size of the rooms focusPoint has been inhabiting.
focusPoint has been operating out of a suite that contains two small, private offices, and one-large room that holds all the departments together: news staff, production, sales and administration. In the new office, there will be separate rooms for each of the departments, a reception area, a conference room, private offices, and a kitchen.
�I think this expands our marketplace,� said Patrick Schey, an advertising representative with focusPoint. �I feel this increases our capacity as a newspaper to expand not only in the community but in the corporate markets.�
Schey said the new office �puts [focusPoint] in a more service-oriented role.... We have the space to be able to implement more systems which will in turn increase our service to our clients, our dedication to the community, and our role as a newspaper.�
focusPoint is inviting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender communities and friends to come to an open house and see the new office for themselves. The open house will be July 13 from 3-7 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the staff will be on hand to show you their favorite parts of the new space. Visitors are also welcome to come by any time that is convenient for them and have a tour.
focusPoint�s new address is: 401 N. 3rd St, Suite 480, Minneapolis, MN 55401. The phone number for InFront is 288-9000, and for focusPoint 288-9008, the new fax number is 288-9001, and the newsroom fax, for all your hot tips and press releases, is 288-9868.
Bob Hattoy, White House HIV/AIDS liaison, speaking at the 17th Annual National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference
Health Conferc
by Rachel Cold
More than 700 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health care providers converged on Minneapolis, Minnesota June 17-21 for the 17th annual National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference. The five-day conference included over 150 workshops and panels, covering such wide-ranging topics as drug abuse, domestic violence, HIV and AIDS, cancer, bisexual and transgender health concerns.
This year�s conference theme was �Facing Our Challenges, Celebrating Our Lives: Gay Health in the 90�s.� A theme that NLGHA President Joyce Hunter and Vice President Richard Isay called �urgent� in their welcome; � They listed a number of challenges to the health of the gay community including loss of funding for health programs, the struggle to build links between local and national health organizations, and the threat of a second wave of HIV infection among young gay men.
The conference also included the
uice convenes
meeting of the 13th Annual HIV/AIDS Forum and the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals Conference-Within-A-Conference. George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences co-sponsored the conference.
Bob Hattoy, the openly gay and HIV-positive While House HIV/AIDS liaison, gave the keynote address for the conference. Hattoy praised conference attendees in his speech, saying that more had been done to save people�s lives in one day of the NLGHA conference, than all week at the American Medical Association Conference.
He emphasized the need for a coalition of �disease care activists,� to bring attention to the need for more funding for health issues. �We have to stick together in this,� he demanded. Hattoy also called for a national march on Washington of all the groups that are fighting disease, �to let people know we won�t be pitted against each other.�
continued on page 2
in Minneapolis
Transgender activists take over health panel
by Rachel Cold *�
Transgender activists disrupted a symposium on �Transgender Health� at the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference in Minneapolis on June 18. The symposium had been organized by Dr. Walter Bockting of the University of Minnesota�s Program in Human Sexuality.
A panel of three long-term transgender activists was scheduled to speak, Martine Rothblatt, Esq. author of �The Apartheid of Sex: Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender; Dallas Denny, MA, Executive Director of the American Educational Gender Information Service; and Armand Hotimsky, President of the French organization Center for Research and Information on Transsexuality and Gender Identity.
continued on page 2
Supreme court�s desicion:
Pot O� Gold or bunch O� Blarney
by Hannah Feldman
Strangely enough, Monday�s Supreme Court decision that organizers of a Boston St. Patrick�s Day parade could exclude a gay and lesbian group from marching in it has provided the GLBT community with as much cause for sat-isfaction as for disappointment.
The ruling was based on interpretation of free speech laws, and did not support or condemn gay rights. As such, it has set a precedent that could allow GLBT Pride parades to forbid homo-phobic groups from marching.
In 1993, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group sued the parade�s organizers, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council and its leader John Hurley (appropriately nicknamed �Wacko�), after the latter excluded the former from marching in 1992 and 1993. The parade is a major event in Boston, celebrating not only St. Patrick�s Day but also Patriot�s Day,
when British troops fled Boston in 1776.
Previous judges had ruled that the parade was a recreational event open to the public and that the group could not be excluded for its sexual orientation. Massachusetts is one of eight states that extends civil rights to gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
But Justice David Souter wrote in his 24-page opinion, �The issue in this case is whether Massachusetts may require private citizens who organize a parade to include among the marchers a group imparting a message the organizers do not wish to convey...We hold that such a mandate violates the First Amendment�
According to the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, this decision�s reinforcement of free speech rights may support the challenge to the military�s �don�t ask, don�t tell,� policy, which is currently making its way through the courts. That challenge is based in part on a gay or lesbian military person�s free speech
right to declaring his or her sexuality.
Ashley Rukes, who has produced the Twin Cities� Pride parade for the past five years, says that while she expects a few picketers to show this Sunday, she has never had an anti-gay organization try to march in the parade. �If they meant well, if they were trying to open up a dialogue, I would have to think about it,� she says. But she�s glad to have the freedom to keep the blatant homophobes out. Of Monday ruling, she says, �It�s a good ruling.�
Meanwhile, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group may have to resign itself to having its own private parade, unless, as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force deputy director Kerry Lobel suggested in a recent press release, the city of Boston holds a publicly-sponsored parade, which would be subject to the civil rights ordinance. May they have all the luck of the Irish on that one.
. 2. ?!��. !5 Iwtue 57
Justify your glove: Homophobia and chagrin at the
by Hannah Feldman
At the beginning of their June 13 afternoon in the first delegation of gay and lesbian elected officials invited to speak with a presidential administration, Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation vice president Wally Swan and his partner were as excited as Minnesota State Rep. Karen Clark and everyone else gathered at the White House gates, snapping photos and smoothing their lapels. By the end of the evening, they left tired and thoughtful, the neonazi demonstrators in Dupont Circle nothing more than a symbolic reminder that it could have been worse.
Everyone has to go through a security check before entering the White House grounds. But no one in the delegation could remember ever having seen the security guards wearing blue gloves during the check before. When Oregon State Rep. George Eighmay asked a guard what the gloves for, he replied, �Protection.� Then he stood over the representative and said, �Do you have a * *problem* * with that, sir?� Eighmay backed down for the moment, and the tour went on.
At this point, Swan says, �Everbody�s still pretty happy, because not every-
one got [the significance of the gloves]. But the rest of us are slightly seething underneath.�
Hattoy said that the guards had been trained well and knew that their actions were inappropriate. He characterized them as �renegade folks... that maliciously acted out their bigotry...to embarass the President. �
The seething simmered on low during a briefing by top Clinton administration members that Swan characterizes as �mostly excellent.� Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Cisneros spoke on the effect proposed Republican cuts would have on people with AIDS, breast cancer research, and lesbian health services. But when White House Counsel Abner Mikva tried to justify the administration�s refusal to sign onto an amicus brief against Colorado�s antigay initiative by calling it a �pragmatic decision� based on likely political backlash from conservative Christians, Swan had to seethe out loud.
continued on page 2
Rachel Gold
From left to right: Rebecca Durkee, Mecale Little, Armand Hotimsky, Christine Tayleur, Margaret O�Hartigan, and Kiki Whitlock, at the activist takeover of the Transgender Health panel of the NLGHA conference.
Rachel Gold

Jay Lucas gives corporate guidance Page 6
1995 Pride supplement maps and more Pages 15-18
�Signorile speaks out Page 22
focusPoint plans move
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 27 and 28, the focusPoint office will be boxed up and transported to its new location at 401 N. 3rd St. The new office, in the Designer�s Guild building in the warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis, is nearly triple the size of the rooms focusPoint has been inhabiting.
focusPoint has been operating out of a suite that contains two small, private offices, and one-large room that holds all the departments together: news staff, production, sales and administration. In the new office, there will be separate rooms for each of the departments, a reception area, a conference room, private offices, and a kitchen.
�I think this expands our marketplace,� said Patrick Schey, an advertising representative with focusPoint. �I feel this increases our capacity as a newspaper to expand not only in the community but in the corporate markets.�
Schey said the new office �puts [focusPoint] in a more service-oriented role.... We have the space to be able to implement more systems which will in turn increase our service to our clients, our dedication to the community, and our role as a newspaper.�
focusPoint is inviting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender communities and friends to come to an open house and see the new office for themselves. The open house will be July 13 from 3-7 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the staff will be on hand to show you their favorite parts of the new space. Visitors are also welcome to come by any time that is convenient for them and have a tour.
focusPoint�s new address is: 401 N. 3rd St, Suite 480, Minneapolis, MN 55401. The phone number for InFront is 288-9000, and for focusPoint 288-9008, the new fax number is 288-9001, and the newsroom fax, for all your hot tips and press releases, is 288-9868.
Bob Hattoy, White House HIV/AIDS liaison, speaking at the 17th Annual National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference
Health Conferc
by Rachel Cold
More than 700 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health care providers converged on Minneapolis, Minnesota June 17-21 for the 17th annual National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference. The five-day conference included over 150 workshops and panels, covering such wide-ranging topics as drug abuse, domestic violence, HIV and AIDS, cancer, bisexual and transgender health concerns.
This year�s conference theme was �Facing Our Challenges, Celebrating Our Lives: Gay Health in the 90�s.� A theme that NLGHA President Joyce Hunter and Vice President Richard Isay called �urgent� in their welcome; � They listed a number of challenges to the health of the gay community including loss of funding for health programs, the struggle to build links between local and national health organizations, and the threat of a second wave of HIV infection among young gay men.
The conference also included the
uice convenes
meeting of the 13th Annual HIV/AIDS Forum and the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals Conference-Within-A-Conference. George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences co-sponsored the conference.
Bob Hattoy, the openly gay and HIV-positive While House HIV/AIDS liaison, gave the keynote address for the conference. Hattoy praised conference attendees in his speech, saying that more had been done to save people�s lives in one day of the NLGHA conference, than all week at the American Medical Association Conference.
He emphasized the need for a coalition of �disease care activists,� to bring attention to the need for more funding for health issues. �We have to stick together in this,� he demanded. Hattoy also called for a national march on Washington of all the groups that are fighting disease, �to let people know we won�t be pitted against each other.�
continued on page 2
in Minneapolis
Transgender activists take over health panel
by Rachel Cold *�
Transgender activists disrupted a symposium on �Transgender Health� at the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association Conference in Minneapolis on June 18. The symposium had been organized by Dr. Walter Bockting of the University of Minnesota�s Program in Human Sexuality.
A panel of three long-term transgender activists was scheduled to speak, Martine Rothblatt, Esq. author of �The Apartheid of Sex: Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender; Dallas Denny, MA, Executive Director of the American Educational Gender Information Service; and Armand Hotimsky, President of the French organization Center for Research and Information on Transsexuality and Gender Identity.
continued on page 2
Supreme court�s desicion:
Pot O� Gold or bunch O� Blarney
by Hannah Feldman
Strangely enough, Monday�s Supreme Court decision that organizers of a Boston St. Patrick�s Day parade could exclude a gay and lesbian group from marching in it has provided the GLBT community with as much cause for sat-isfaction as for disappointment.
The ruling was based on interpretation of free speech laws, and did not support or condemn gay rights. As such, it has set a precedent that could allow GLBT Pride parades to forbid homo-phobic groups from marching.
In 1993, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group sued the parade�s organizers, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council and its leader John Hurley (appropriately nicknamed �Wacko�), after the latter excluded the former from marching in 1992 and 1993. The parade is a major event in Boston, celebrating not only St. Patrick�s Day but also Patriot�s Day,
when British troops fled Boston in 1776.
Previous judges had ruled that the parade was a recreational event open to the public and that the group could not be excluded for its sexual orientation. Massachusetts is one of eight states that extends civil rights to gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
But Justice David Souter wrote in his 24-page opinion, �The issue in this case is whether Massachusetts may require private citizens who organize a parade to include among the marchers a group imparting a message the organizers do not wish to convey...We hold that such a mandate violates the First Amendment�
According to the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, this decision�s reinforcement of free speech rights may support the challenge to the military�s �don�t ask, don�t tell,� policy, which is currently making its way through the courts. That challenge is based in part on a gay or lesbian military person�s free speech
right to declaring his or her sexuality.
Ashley Rukes, who has produced the Twin Cities� Pride parade for the past five years, says that while she expects a few picketers to show this Sunday, she has never had an anti-gay organization try to march in the parade. �If they meant well, if they were trying to open up a dialogue, I would have to think about it,� she says. But she�s glad to have the freedom to keep the blatant homophobes out. Of Monday ruling, she says, �It�s a good ruling.�
Meanwhile, the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group may have to resign itself to having its own private parade, unless, as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force deputy director Kerry Lobel suggested in a recent press release, the city of Boston holds a publicly-sponsored parade, which would be subject to the civil rights ordinance. May they have all the luck of the Irish on that one.
. 2. ?!��. !5 Iwtue 57
Justify your glove: Homophobia and chagrin at the
by Hannah Feldman
At the beginning of their June 13 afternoon in the first delegation of gay and lesbian elected officials invited to speak with a presidential administration, Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation vice president Wally Swan and his partner were as excited as Minnesota State Rep. Karen Clark and everyone else gathered at the White House gates, snapping photos and smoothing their lapels. By the end of the evening, they left tired and thoughtful, the neonazi demonstrators in Dupont Circle nothing more than a symbolic reminder that it could have been worse.
Everyone has to go through a security check before entering the White House grounds. But no one in the delegation could remember ever having seen the security guards wearing blue gloves during the check before. When Oregon State Rep. George Eighmay asked a guard what the gloves for, he replied, �Protection.� Then he stood over the representative and said, �Do you have a * *problem* * with that, sir?� Eighmay backed down for the moment, and the tour went on.
At this point, Swan says, �Everbody�s still pretty happy, because not every-
one got [the significance of the gloves]. But the rest of us are slightly seething underneath.�
Hattoy said that the guards had been trained well and knew that their actions were inappropriate. He characterized them as �renegade folks... that maliciously acted out their bigotry...to embarass the President. �
The seething simmered on low during a briefing by top Clinton administration members that Swan characterizes as �mostly excellent.� Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Cisneros spoke on the effect proposed Republican cuts would have on people with AIDS, breast cancer research, and lesbian health services. But when White House Counsel Abner Mikva tried to justify the administration�s refusal to sign onto an amicus brief against Colorado�s antigay initiative by calling it a �pragmatic decision� based on likely political backlash from conservative Christians, Swan had to seethe out loud.
continued on page 2
Rachel Gold
From left to right: Rebecca Durkee, Mecale Little, Armand Hotimsky, Christine Tayleur, Margaret O�Hartigan, and Kiki Whitlock, at the activist takeover of the Transgender Health panel of the NLGHA conference.
Rachel Gold